The Clay County School District could soon have a new policy for reviewing books and other materials, in response to a new Florida law that requires the approval of books in school libraries.
on these changes to the policy on Thursday, which coincides with Read Across America Day.
The bill also added requirements for each school board to lay out procedures for training school staff and including parents in the process. There are two parts to the proposed changes in Clay County. First, an updated manual for school media specialists and new procedures for reviewing challenged materials.The district already uses a rotating team of at least five people to review books in classrooms and libraries, which is made up of resource specialists principals and parents.The biggest change to the current policy is that when a challenge only applies to a library book, the material will not be removed from circulation.
Parents can appeal any decision made by the committee. In those cases, the school board will review the material, and any decision it makes is final.Clay County received national attention last summer when a dad’s comments at a went viral when he attempted to read an excerpt from a book that involves a woman’s graphic retelling of a sexual assault.Just this week, the committee reviewed several books, including “Fangirl,” a young adult novel about a girl’s first year of college. Some parents groups have dubbed it “too hot for teens” and ”dangerously offensive.”Those are books like, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a series of essays by George Johnson about growing up as a queer Black man, which was removed from all libraries.
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